Prize cash continues to rise for girls’s majors.
Two days after Nelly Korda telegraphed her declare to the Chevron Championship’s prime prize of $1.35 million, growing her purse by one other $1 million to a file $9 million, the R&A and title sponsor AIG introduced on Tuesday that the prize cash for the Girls’s British Open could be elevated by one other $10 million.
This makes it the third LPGA main to boast an eight-figure prize pool, following the U.S. Girls’s Open and KPMG Girls’s PGA, every with $12 million.
Whereas that is solely a $250,000 enhance from final yr’s Girls’s British Open, the partnership between R&A and AIG is shocking because it marks the sixth yr in a row that the quantity has elevated.
The Girls’s British Open will probably be held at Royal Lytham and St Anne’s from July twenty ninth to August 2nd. The final time these Lancashire rinks had been held was in 2018, when Georgia Corridor gained with a prize cash of $3.25 million. The partnership started the next yr, and funding greater than tripled.
“This constant and sustainable funding within the prize fund underlines the R&A and AIG’s dedication to elevating championships on the world stage,” stated Mark Darbon, CEO of the R&A.
Together with extra funding, the R&A stated it could develop its protection to supply essentially the most viewing time (34 hours) of any girls’s main.
Weekday rounds could have a further 3 hours. The ultimate two rounds of the British Girls’s Open will probably be broadcast reside for seven hours (5am to 2pm ET) on Sky Sports activities and R&A TV within the UK, and on a mixture of Golf Channel, USA Community and NBC within the US.
Data from The Related Press contributed to this report.
